Google XML Sitemaps

Popis

Use this plugin to greatly improve SEO to create special XML sitemaps which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your site.

With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

I was having problems with Yoast sitemaps and decided to try this plugin out. The added functionality, control and stability of the plugin is wonderful. I still think Yoast is a great package, but will without doubt switch the Yoast sitemap functionality off and will use Google XML sitemaps going forward.

3.0b4 (2006-11-16)

3.0b2 (2006-01-14)

Fixed several bugs reported by users

3.0b (2005-11-25)

WordPress 2.0 (Beta, RC1) compatible

Added different priority calculation modes and introduced an API to create custom ones (Some people didn’t like the way to calculate the post priority based on the count of user comments. This will give you the possibility to develop custom priority providers which fit your needs.)

Added support to use the Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King to calculate post priority (If you are already using the Popularity Contest plugin, this will be the best way to determine the priority of the posts. Uses to new priority API noted above.)

Added option to exclude password protected posts (This was one of the most requested features.)

Posts and pages marked for publish with a date in the future won’t be included

Added function to start sitemap creation via GET and a secret key (If you are using external software which directly writes into the database without using the WordPress API, you can rebuild the sitemap with a simple HTTP Request. This can be made with a cron job for example.)

Improved compatibility with other plugins (There should no longer be problems with other plugins now which checked for existence of a specified function to determine if you are in the control panel or not.)

Recoded plugin architecture which is now fully OOP (The code is now cleaner and better to understand which makes it easier to modify. This should also avoid namespace problems.)

Improved speed and optimized settings handling (Settings and pages are only loaded if the sitemap generation process starts and not every time a page loads. This saves one MySQL Query on every request.)

Added Button to restore default configuration (Messed up the config? You’ll need just one click to restore all settings.)

Added log file to check everything is running (In the new log window you can see when your sitemap was rebuilt or if there was any error.)

Improved user-interface

Added several links to homepage and support (This includes the Notify List about new releases and the WordPress support forum.)